Crime Statistics for Lower Hamworthy, Poole, Poole, 2024

Crime statistics for Lower Hamworthy, Poole

There were a total of 132 street level crime incidents in Lower Hamworthy in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour37
Violent Crime36
Criminal Damage Arson13
Other Theft11
Shoplifting10
Public Order7
Burglary6
Vehicle Crime4
Drugs4
Possession Of Weapons2
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime132

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lower Hamworthy. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.



Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Lower Hamworthy

We've taken the ten nearest places to Lower Hamworthy and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Lower Hamworthy has more crime than other surrounding areas.

LocationCrime Incidents
Longfleet (0.88 miles)225
Oakdale (1.75 miles)215
Waterloo (2.56 miles)157
Canford Heath (2.78 miles)153
Lower Hamworthy132
Parkstone (1.96 miles)130
Hamworthy (0.88 miles)105
Creekmoor97
Turlin Moor (1.39 miles)85
Lake11

8.68%
of Hamworthy residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lower Hamworthy?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Lower Hamworthy and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

LocationViolent Incidents
Oakdale74
Longfleet71
Canford Heath55
Waterloo49
Parkstone47
Hamworthy38
Lower Hamworthy36
Creekmoor34
Turlin Moor32
Lake6

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Lower Hamworthy?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Lower Hamworthy to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Lower Hamworthy compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Hamworthy and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Lower Hamworthy is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Newtown & Heatherlands55
2Poole Town47
3Hamworthy40
4Parkstone32
5Lytchett Matravers & Upton30
6Oakdale29
7Canford Heath26
8South East Purbeck24
9Wareham24
10Creekmoor20
11Broadstone8

Which road in Lower Hamworthy has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Lower Hamworthy with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around The Quay.

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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